Meet the Vocations Director

Fr. Patrick Crino
Director of Vocations
✉  pcrino@diocesetucson.org
✆  520-838-2530

A Tucson native, Fr. Patrick Crino was educated at Our Mother of Sorrows School and Palo Verde High School. He graduated from St. John's Seminary, Camarillo, CA, in 1980 and earned his Master of Divinity following four years of graduate work at St. John's. 

He was ordained, together with John Lyons and Raul Trevizo (now both Monsignors), here in Tucson at St. Augustine Cathedral by Bishop Manuel Moreno on August 15, 1988. 

Fr. Crino has served at Sts. Peter and Paul, St. Francis of Assisi in Yuma, St. Augustine Cathedral, and, currently, St. Thomas the Apostle. Fr. Pat is also the Director of Seminarians for the Diocese of Tucson.